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Open the doors to the next generation!
Mireille Ngosso in conversation with Robert Misik about Black Lives Matter and her commitment as a black politician in the SPÖ

Mireille Ngosso, born in Kinshasa in 1980, is a doctor and social democratic politician. She came to Vienna in 1984 and grew up here - and like every black child, she experienced both subtle and less subtle discrimination.
She was deputy district leader in Vienna's first district, but was then not sufficiently supported in the internal party primaries - possibly also because you have to prove yourself twice and three times over as a person who appears „foreign“ to us. Now she is running for the Vienna City Council in a promising position.
Most recently, she co-organised the „BlackLivesMatter“ demonstration, which was attended by a surprising 50,000 people.
We talk to her about her experiences as a black Austrian, how one is constantly „made foreign“, how effective images and stigmas of the „other“ are, about the multiple burdens of being a doctor and politician and also about how a young generation from all ethnic backgrounds is standing up together against racism and discrimination.